“Canada and Toronto is really just the first step into the global game,” WNBA Toronto president Teresa Resch said onstage at the Elevate tech conference. (The Logic)

Talking point: Canada’s first professional female basketball team—which doesn’t yet have a name—will play its inaugural season in 2026. It will be the WNBA’s 14th franchise, and the first outside the U.S. The Toronto team will be run and owned by Larry Tanenbaum’s Kilmer Sports Ventures, and play at the Coca-Cola Coliseum at Exhibition Place downtown. The league has exploded in popularity over the past year, with viewership per game hitting a 24-year record at an average 657,000 viewers per game, Sports Business Journal reported. The league’s success this year has been largely driven by Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark, who captivated fans as a college athlete in Iowa. Resch told the Elevate crowd she wants to see more teams across the country, as well as the world. “We hope someday there will be another Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton team.”